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ADeallWildLands
OR, THE
Fiilit for tie IfaelsM Millions.
BY LEON LEWIS.
CHAPter i. " '
startling news from THE Musselshell,
Hiram Skidder, for many years a
prominent merchant of Chicago, sat in
his private office one afternoon, debat
ing seriously the question of making an
assignment. forMoneyf He 1,T was credit not onlv pinched
b„t S had been U t
S? terlv rS demolished h ^nXcSs as the re result SS of f hi'd cer
been widely whispered under cover of
Becreoy. It is needless to say that the
frame of mind in which he found himself
was unenviable. His smoothly shaven
face had bicomo rigid in its outlines, and
was paler than usual. His manner had
become irritable, forbidding, and at
times even violent.
At the moment we look in upon him,
he had just entered upon the exarnina
tion of iiis afternoon’s mail—a task he
had fouud at once irksome, monotonous,
and annoying.
“Duns, threats, and reproaches—this
is the burden of their whole soug.” be
muttered, suspending operations a
ment. “I’ll see if I can't get together a
few additional thousands and vanish. ”
Picking up another letter, the mer
chant opened it. The handwriting be
ing unfamiliar and singular, he glanced
at the signature.
“From Col. Harvey Whipsaw, of
tlesnake Ranch, Musselshell, Montana,”
he read, smiling involuntarily.
What could such a man have to say to
him? ’
He began reading the missive, display
ing an interest which rapidily increased
to agitation and wonder. By the time
, ho , had , reached , the . signature . again t.ie
sheet fairly rustled in his grasp, and he
looked startled and bewildered.
“How strange!” he ejaculated. “Evi
dently there is some good in those wild
l*rY d3 0n Musselshell, after all.
What a pity - I sold Jiern.
He read the letter a second time with
keen deliberation, his excitement in
creasing.
“Ye^ the Colonel wants . to . . buy an in
terest in those lands <iiid become resident
manager,” he muttered. “What can be
the secret of his deep and suaden desire
to purchase? Is it another case o.
linking it rich?’ His language sue
gests it, and, on the face of things,
nothing is more likely. Ihe richness of
Montana in all sorts of mineral is pro
verbial. ”
He se.cured the lott:-r of , ol. Mlnpsaw
carofully in an inner pocket.
“It’s clear that some great discovery
has been made,” ho added. “I musn't
lose a moment in recovering possession
of those lands.”
He touched a cali-beli on his desk, in
answer to which a clerk made his ap
pearance.
“Send Mr. Wynans here,” ordered the
merchant
The clerk withdrew, to be succeeded
promptly by a young gentleman who had
been iu the employ of Hiram Skidder a
dozen . at . first „ . clerk, , , then
years, as as a
bookkeeper, and finally as cashier.
‘Sit down, Mr. Wynans, ... „ greeted .... the
merchant affably, indicating a chair. “I
wish to talk with you about the Mussel
shell property I sold you two or three
years ago ”
The cashier inclined his handsome fig¬
ure gracefully, accepting the proffered
chair, while a curious sort of smile
traversed his face.
Ho was about seven-and-twenty years
of age, with a form of the finest propor¬
tions. He had the strength and agility;
of an athlete, without having any es¬
pecial consciousness of tho fact, so‘
completely had his thoughts been ab¬
sorbed in study aud scienca He was
uncommonly good-looking, with his
smooth, regular features, his shapely
head and curly hair, his mild blue eyes,
and his genial, sunny aspect.
“Let’s see,” resumed tho merchant,
with his blandest voice, “do you remem¬
ber how I became tho owner of the
property in question?”
“Of course,” replied Wynans. “Your
only brother, Jeremiah Skidder, went
out there feurteeu years ago and bought
a ranch. Later he wrote you and your
brother-in-law, the late Charles Tower
of Ingleheim, that ha had a grand
chance to invest $10,000 in land near
him, and you and Tower sent out
the money, taking joint deeds of the
property. ”
“Exactly. And what then?”
“Why, Jerry Skidder wrote that he
had been deceived, that the acquisition
was practically worthless; and he con¬
tinued to write in this strain for years,
until both Tower and yourself grew sick
of the whole transaction, and finally
sold the property. ”
“True again,” commented Skidder.
“And you have cared so little about your
purchase that you have not yet had the
deeds recorded?"
Wynans assented.
“So that Tower and I are still on rec¬
ord as the owners?”
The cashier nodded again, and, in
fact, as much was shown by the applica¬
tion the merchant had received from
Colonel Whipsaw, of Rattlesanke Ranch.
“Let's see, ” said Skidder again, after
a thoughtful and sinister pause, “how
much did you give me, Perry, for my
half interest in that Musselshell prop¬
erty?”
“Seven hundred dollars, sir.”
“You have beeu at no expense in re¬
gard to it, I presume?”
“At very little, sir.”
“You have never even fenced the
lands or paid the taxes?”
“No, sir,” acknowledged Wynans.
“The fact is, you had left your brother
a foresaid in possession, a barging him to
a c
could - ..
, *1! *: action until such time as T I ftp
pear there in person.
The merchant nodded understand
ingly. that property
“Well, I’d like to buy
I back from you, Perry,” ho announced,
with assumed carelessness, “and of
course I’ll frankly give you my reasons. ”
The cashier again intimated by an in
clination that ho was all attention, and
j Hiram Skidder continued:
l “1 desire to send my son out there, not
! merely to establish him in an independ
ent position but to get him out of the
dangerous path he is now following. As
you may have heard, or even read in the
papers, he lias been in a number of dis
>eputabie affairs, and I fear anotha?
rear or two in the midst of his present,
! mrroundings will prove his utter ruin. ”
i These plausible statements of Skidder's
' motives did not deceive Perry Wynans.
He knew them to be untrue.
“I suppose you’ll want something for
, the
the use of your money,” pursued
merchant, with an insinuating smile.
-You g.™ four hundred dollars, I be*
iieve, for the half interest of my late
brother-in-law, Charles Tower, in this
property?”
“Quite right, sir. Just four hundred. ”
“Then the eight thousand acres,” con
tinned the merchant, with a smile of
anticipated triumph, “have cost you just
s.even hundred dollars?”
| ; Perry assented, and Skidder proceeded:
“What shall we say, therefore, for
your entire interest? Will fifteen bun
dred dollars be a fair figure?”
j The strange smile of Perry Wynans
deepened.
I “Hardly,” he answered. “I have
taken the trouble to give those lands a
, personal inspection, and-”
“Y’ou?” exclaimed the merchant, with
a start of astonishment.
| “Certainly—I.”
; “When, may I ask?”
“Almost three years ago ”
“What! Before you purchased them?”
“Naturally.” And Perry smiled again,
“I went out there during one of my
'
brief vacations. ”
I The merchant lost color. He even
looked startled, and his mien grew re
■ proachful and injured, as if ho had been
! deceived,
j “And I have also been at the expense
of sending a mining expert to Montana
Po r pp t)rP upon the prooerty,” added
\yynans.
“And your expert has reported?”
baS) g j r j ma y add j am j n re _
ce j pP G f ver y surprising information.”
q. be merc hant stirred uneasily, an in
j tense flush replacing the pallor which
had mantled his face,
j . “Such information, in fact,” explained
| I Perry, “that I do not care to part with
my Musselshell property on any terms
whatever ”
He aroge quietly as if he had no thing
more to say on the 9ubje ct.
i.Q b we u seeing it's you, Perry,” de¬
clared thc merchant) with a wheedling
sort t one> W ju be liberal. I want
; t0 gj ve my son a new bome f a r from his
j cided presen to t send temptations, him to Montana. and have fully Suppose de
we sa y a coap ] e Q f thousands for the
1 property?” p
“I am very sorry, Mr. Skidder, ” re¬
sponded Perry, “but I have decided not
to sell the lands in question—certainly
not before 1 have again visited Montana
in person.”
Iliram Skidder drew his breath hard,
his countenance losing color again.
“Then you won’t put a price on them?”
“Not at present—no, sir.”
“Can't 1 tempt you?” queried the mer¬
chant, forcing a smile.
I “I don't believe you can, sir. But you
j should remember there are plenty of
1 wild lands for ^at sale near mine. I expect
; t0 g 0 out way soon, so that your
| son can have me for a neighbor. I-”
j “I will give you $5,000, Perry,” inter¬
rupted the merchant, with an abrupt
I ness which attested how eager he was
j to carry his point.
“Indeed? You must have had good
news from the Musselshell!”
“Not a word!”
“In any case, I must decline your
offer. ”
I The words seemed to plunge the mer
j chant into a veritable consternation.
“Y'ou can’t moan it,” he protested. “I
! told my son he should have these lands,
and so 1 must make you another and
final offer. Let us say $10,000!”
Perry shook his head emphatically.
“Ten thousand dollars or 10 cents—
it's all the same to me, Mr. Skidder,” he
declared. “Money won’t buy them!"
“What! not $20,000, all in cash, within
five minutes?” cried the merchant.
“No, sir!”
“Not fifty thousand?”
“No, nor twice fifty thousand,” as¬
sured Perry, with the same quiet smile
as before. “I have no intention of sell¬ 1
ing those lands, Mr. Skidder, and must,
decline to entertain any proposition look¬
ing to their purchase!” j
Hiram Skidder became deathly pale
with the rage and vexation these declara¬
tions caused him. A flood of furious re¬
proaches and threats trembled upon his
lips. But he controlled himself,
“I—I am very sorry,” ho faltered, with
averted face. “I’ll have to be content
with sending my son out there to be
your neighbor, as you have suggested.
That’s all, sir.”
Perry Wynans again inclined his hand¬
some figure gracefully and vanished.
What a glance of hate and wrath was
that the merchant sent after him!
“The thieving villain!” he ejaculated.
“To talk in that way about a piece of
property I sold him for almost nothing!
But of course he has received extraor¬
dinary reports from his special agent.
What can be the secret?” .
Springing to his feet, he strode to and
fro excitedly, knitting his brow-s in an
intense study as to the ways and means
of recovering possession of the lands
with which he had so lightly parted,
supposing them to be worthless.
“1 see what to do,” he finally decided.
“I must start for the Musselshell this
very night. At the best I'm on the verge
of failure. I am tired of these vain at¬
tempts to get on my feet again. All is
I , lost here, aud I hay, u„ fo gulu fhcru.
Iff can get out there ahead of Perry
! Winans, and catch him in some quiet
corner, with no one looking and with
those deeds on his person, before they’v
£S"' 1,lli “ be “ S ‘"
The look upon his face attested that
he meant n a|| things evii being writ
t ^enceand en thereon—hate and greed, and even
robbery.
CHAPTER II.
turned out to perish.
A knock was heard at the door at this
moment, and one of tho merchant i
clerks stepped hesitatingly into his pres
ence.
“If you please, Mr. Skidder, he an
nounced, “here’s a young woman who
wishes to see you ”
The merchant glared at his dependent
so angrily that he retreated involun
tarily a step or two.
“How dare you come to me with mes
sages from such creatures?” he demand
ed. “The second offense will cost \ou
your place. If you a ccn unger in
my service sir, you would know that I
He s H imnerativelv ? hut
the e erk , stood „ , , bis . ground, with there
mark.
“The young woman ,s no beggar, sir.
She s your own niece.
“IPs false!” roared ihe merchanlL ‘ I
have no niece! She s an impostor. Cal.
Jhe c r >
scarcely _ d asain
and b
race. Before he coum ,, speak, , e
»
the aperture widened, and a secon per
-on entered the merchants presence.
The newcomer was the niece who a
just been so rudely repudiated,
What a rare, witching girl she wa .
bad ^he wild free grace of a fawn, .
a slender, swaying figure; a sweet, pure
girlish face, framed in flowing hair, an a
P air .°*. l°Y e ty brown eyes, innocent,
truthful , and unconciously appealing eyes
from which looked a woman s thoughful
S0ld that had learned too early the bittei
ne99
She approached ... the merchant, , extend¬ . ,
ber hand, as the clerk hastily re
treated.
“Are you my uncle Hiram, she asked,
ara Elfie Tower, your sisters only
dau ,£ bteF -”
“Elfie lower? „„ repeated , _ the ,, merchant, ,
with a stare of surprise. “Ihe daughter
of my only sister Mary?”
“The same, uncle. ”
The merchaut shook her hand feebly
a single Instant, and invited her by gest¬
ure to be seated.
“This is a great surprise,” he said, re¬
suming his seat. “What brings you to
Chicago? Come on a little visit, eh?
Better have staid in the country. ”
“lam come to stay, Uncle Hiram,”
announced the girl quietly. “lam alone
in the world-”
“Alone? How’s that?”
“My father died last year, as mother
wrote you,” explained Elfie. “Mamma
has followed him,” and her voice grew
broken. “She died last week, Uncle
Hiram, and when she was dying she told
me to come to you. She sent you her
dearest love, regretting keenly-”
“Humph!” said the merchant. “Of
course I’m sorry she’s dead, but it’s
years since I saw her, and the loss
doesn’t come on me as keenly as on you.
Mary was a good woman, a little senti¬
mental, perhaps, and always talking
about affection, honor, truthfulness, and
that sort of thing, but she meant well, 1
don’t doubt. How many children did
your parents leave?”
“I was their only child, Untie Hiram,
save the one who died. ”
“Ah, yes,” and the merchant yawned.
“I have lost sight of my sister during the
past few years. It is true, I received a
letter in which she said her husband was
dead, but I never found time to answer
it. My business cares have always been
heavy. I visited your parents in Ingle
heira ten years ago, when you were a
mere child. They were very prosperous
in those days—owned a grocery store,
with houses and lots, horses, and so
forth. Your father had few expenses in
that little village. I suppose, Elfie, you
have inherited a handsome property?”
“Quite the contrary, uncle. My father
made some investments which turned
out badly, including his joint purchase
with you of those wild lands on the Mus¬
selshell River, in Montana. He was
alco burned out, and failed in business
three months before he died.”
“Ah, failed, did he?” said the mer¬
chant, cheerfully. “Was it a bad fail¬
ure?”
“It swamped us completely, uncle—
left us in poverty. ”
Hiram Skidder stared amazed.
“What! Eh?” he gasped. “Poverty?”
“When the debts were paid we had no
home and only five hundred dollars in
money. ”
“The debts paid?”
“Yes, uncle. Every debt was paid.
My father taken ill, lingered three
months, then died, but when ho died he
owed no man a cent,” said Elfie proudly.
“No widow or orphan, no trusting
tradesman, no one whomsoever, can say
that my father every cheated him or her
of their rightful dues.”
“But, God bless my soul!” ejaculated
Hl I am Skidder. “Was the man mad?”
“My father* 1 wa^aif honest man sir
that was all. *
“And your mother was left in pov
er ty?”
“Yes, sir; but It was an honorable
poverty She had a little money left
after father died. We hired two rooms,
*nd I got work to do. I had received a
good education at the village academy
I mean good for my years,” said Effie
modestly—“and I became a clerk in the
village book store. I managed to pro
vide for my mother while she lived.
After her burial I had only *20 remain
“A beggar!” muttered .. , the merchant. ,
“Aregular beggar!”
^® e fai < d to catch this ^ comment.
The bookseller had no further need
of my services, she resumed, -ins son
being about to become a partner with
him. And mother, when dying, told mo
to come to you, Uncle Hiram-”
“Very convenient for you, no doubt.
But I have a large and expensive family
of my own especially a son and daugh
dev ices. Poor people have a singular
fondnesS) Pve noticed, for saddling their
offspring upon somebody else. I don’t
see tha X ca a do ail ythin W for you. It’s
SbSUrJ =*> CO
think of settling yourself as a I
tion to be done,
pauper relation on rne. It can t
my dear young woman!”
The girl's face hushed hotly.
“You are mistaken, sir,” she said,with
a dignity beyond her years. “I want to
pay my way. I want work. I came to
ask a situation as a clerk in your store.”
“If I took in everybody who asks me
for a clerkship,” returned the merchant
testily, “I should soon be in the poor
house. There is no vacancy in my es¬
tablishment. My clerks are used to my
ways, and I can’t turn them off even to
make an opening for you.”
The girl’s face looked blank.
“Do you refuse to receive me into
your services, Uncle Hiram?” she asked.
“I do not want any favor, only a chance
to earn my living. I wil 1 work just as
the others do, and receive the same
pay. ”
“You are very condescending,” sneered
the merchant. “Hut the long and short
of the whole matter is, I have no place
for you!” house? No
“No place for me in your
place for me in your store?”
“You seem to understand me. I have
no place anywhere for you.”
The girl’s countenance plainly ex¬
pressed her surprise, indignation, and
wounded feeling.
“Wouldn’t cousin Hilda like me for a
companion?” she asked.
“No: and if she would I couldn’t con¬
sent to anything of the kind. She has
too many companions’ already. Be¬
sides, she’s going out of town. ”
“Will you at least give me money
enough to take me out to Montana to
my other uncle, Jeremiah Skidder,” pur¬
sued Elfie.
“No, Elfie; and that would be a very
bad move for you. Your father and I
sold our lands on the Musselshell to
Perry Wynans, my cashier, for almost
nothing, because they were reported
worthless, and hence you have no re¬
source* in that direction. Your ‘other
uncle ’ is a lazy, shiftless, lying vaga¬
bond, and one of the meanest men I’ve
ever encountered. ” j
“Then you refuse to interest yourself
in any way for me, uncle Hiram?” in- 1
quired Elfie.
“I can’t do otherwise,” replied the -
merchant. “It was your father’s place
to provide for you. I don’t wish to
comment upon his failure in business
and neglecting to provide for his family;
but that he could expect me to repair
his neglect is incredible.”
The girl arose sadly, sternly.
“We shall not agree, uncle Hiram, in
regard to my father’s course,” she said.
“He left his name to me spotless and
honorable—an inheritance a thousand
times more precious than all the money
in the world. I w T ould not exchange his
reputation for all your wealth, sir!”
“You are impertinent,” returned Skid¬
der, angrily, arising.
“I have obeyed my mother’s command,
sir, and asked of you work and protec
tion,” added Effie, with deep agitation.
“I. alone l„ the world, uncle
Hiram- friendles>, and, to a \ery great
extent, helpless, as a girl of seventeen
must necessarily be. If you turn mo
aw-ay I have nowhere to go. I have but
ten dollars remaining. ”
“Many a man and woman has begun
life on less than that,” J said Skidder. “I
cannot , , help , you. You T ought ____, _ to have
too much pride to thrust yourself upon
me as a pauper to be cared for-”
“Stop there, Uncle Hiram! I am no
pauper. I asked for work, not for
alms. ” And the young girl's eyes flashed
fire, and her pale young face grew
<?fprnlv sternly reproachful. rfti.rnu hfnl Yen You send -?Pnd mn me
away as if I were some importunate
beggar. You revile my parents. You
taunt mo. You have said enough. I’ll
relieve you of my presence!”
Sho moved to the door, where she
turned and faced him. her great eyes
eloquent with her sadness and desola¬
tion.
“But before I go,” she added, “let me
say a word more. We shall meet again,
Uncle Hiram, but not as now! Now I
am a poor, weak girl, without money or
friends, but I shall some day be rich and
powerful! Some day, and perhaps at an
early day, I believe as surely as God
lives, we shall meet again upon a
changed footing! Until then, adieu!”
She bowed and' withdrew, traversing
the outer store and gaining the street,
where she mingled with the throng.
Rejected by her kinsman, a stranger
in a strange city, what was she to do,
and where was she to go?
She wandered on desolately, the world
all before her, the making of her whole
future in her own girlish hands.
She walked barely a block, hardly
conscious of the direction she had taken,
when a hand touched her gently on the
arm from behind.
Turning quickly and halting, she
found herself face to face with a man
whose life was destined to be associated
with her own thenceforward and for
ever.
That man was, Perry Wynans.
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chapter hi.
WELL WOBTHr OF BACH OTHER -
As bad as he was - Hiram Skidder felt
ashamed of the meanness and brutality
W Gf course * I t should ? ha\o t been niec glad , e , + to
. underVfi
^tlmt ‘ 1 sort qunuer uiner i ircumsiances,
b 0 said to himself, when she had van
ished \ “But it was her misfortune to
come here at the most awkward moment
P° 991J - e J us b as I am preparing to leave
110 interrupted “ reve t ri . J by erbaps voices near ” his
y#u ar0 Mr Skidder ., bro(h .
er?” one of his clerks was saying. J *
« You jest bet T am _ bis ow n a nd on]
brother, all the way from Montany,”
was the reply, “and you jest hustle and
hump, will ye, young man, and let Hiram
know that Jerry J Skidder is waiting K
gee
Tho mercW st d briskl to the
door, not without great surprise ^ and
curio8ity> but a!so with an int nse sati9 .
faction at the prospec t 0 f further infor
ma tion from the Musselshell.
thf Lnd ^
j aL JJJill en fu^Lt^i^hed rnmo' of a his d d deShtci dellghted «T at n
mfl Y m in'”
,uX Sk j dd ir h! . <tpnpd . min
clerks him, after who a were warning staring frown after at^TT
the n e *'
comer.
“How rugged and hearty y ou ,
Jerry! And how little changed for
worse,” he resumed, waving returning his broth
to a seat near his desk and
his own chair. “How have you been an
these fourteen years since I saw you?»
“Oh, about as usual,” answered a ,f
visitor. “You seem a little p a | e wi
being cooped up here everlastingly w
you enjoy good health, I hope?” ’ Ul
“Excellent, Jerry. How’s y°w fan.
ily?” only Daisy left,
“I’ve Hiram w
mother having don’t died several years’ jLl
Perhaps you remember D a
She’s a great girl of one-and-twenty »
“Is she here with you?”
“Yes. She has long been wanting to
come to town to see the sights, and I
couldn’t refuse no longer. No, she’s not
waiting outside,” he continued, as the
merchant looked from a little windowh.
to the store. “She’s at our hotel on
Madison street. And how’s J :0 ur wife
and the children?”
“I lost Mrs Skidder years ago,” re.
plied the twenty-five merchant, “but and the ‘children’-!
a son of a girl of twenty,
three—are quite well.
Jerry wagged his jaws nervously u p0!1
a huge quid of tobacco, and bestowed j
keen glance of appreciation upon his
surroundings, while Hiram looked him
over with a curious and searching scru¬
tiny.
The contrast between the brothers
was rather striking, Jerry being at least
ten years the oldest, and having a thin
weazeny frame, a pair of deeply sunken
eyes, and a bony, angular visage. The
old man was active and wiry, however,
as became his bronzed and weather¬
beaten appearance, and could have
readily “handled” his younger and bigger
brother.
“You. seem to be well fixed here,
Hiram,” he remarked, his gaze cominj
back to his brother’s face. “Must have
made an awful pile of money! How does
it happen that you’ve never been out to
Montany to see me?”
“I couldn’t get the time, Jerry.”
“I concluded that such was the case,"
said the visitor, with increased nervous¬
ness, “and that’s why I yielded to Daisy
about coming. The fact is, I want to
buy those Musselshell lands of you and
Tower!”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Mr. Oliver Jex (displaying his Lon¬
don suit)—How is this for a fit? Mr,
Snippen Sheers (critically)—Well, ii
is decidedly apoplectic.— Puck.
GROWTH OFTHB SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Report* from all over the south for the pm
w® e k show that the more favorable weather hu
“W™? tb e condition of busmese Then
^ . not
values expected by some operators haT*
been made as yet. But at no tim* inihepwt
year have inquiries been so general as at pres¬
ent. both for home and foreign shipments,
New cotton mills and enlargement* of exist
ing ones continue to be reported from several
ton manufacture representing bv the local interest investors. taken lheM in (J
0 f new mills and enlargements for the weekii
aB follows: Mills with $100,000 Walterboro,8, capital it
Greenville, Hickory Grove and N. CL,
C.; with $50,000 capital ut Mocksville,
and others at Huntsville and Piedmont, Ah.;
^h | '® Te P° rt > Ea., Tupalo, Miss., Rutherfordton,
N. 0., Cheraw and Newberry, 8. O.
ments of cotton mils are to be made at Dalton,
Ga., ^ Henrietta and Seneca, ’ 8. C., ’ and Trenton,
r pen
iron production in the southern territoij
continues to be active, with somewhat of an in
greased Building demaud, at unchanged quotation!. iron and
■ projects requiring the use of time,
are now ' better than for a long an
an active spring season is anticipated.
Business is falling off somewhat among l “ e
coal producers, but no lessening of the output
1* redorted.
Among important new industries reported southern «
established or incorporated in the
stales during the week are a $300,000 impi'0 T *‘
ment and development company, to do busi¬
ness in Tennessee; a $100,000 telephone con¬
struction company at Louisville, Ky. 1
,
$100,000 hat factory at Wheeling, W. Y».
A compress with $75,000 capital will be bunt
at Cuero, Texas; a $50,000 wooden ware factory
is reported at Portsmouth, Ya., and a
factory with $25,000 capital at Chase City, "•
Ya. ,
Flouring mills are to be built at Miners
J ifrnwn«vinl Veds ’. 'f.? nesboro and Point A Pleasant, k- h^ H «.»•!
i; rGoodr?ohTeuif.’, ' 1 n y d ’lumber . 'phos
hate wo a and £<*'
mi n s at Carrabelle and Suwanee, Fla.,
Smith, and Ark., Atlanta, Ga.. Hopkinsville, (Chatunoo
Alexaudria, La.—Tradtsmau,
ga. Tenn).
SILVER ADVANCING.
The Demand for It is Active and Cot
ton is Going Up Also.
A New York special 6ays: The m ar ‘
ket for silver is unusually active ^
at the board certificates rose to 67}.
The sales of 20,000 ounces is reported Me*
Commercial advanced to 65f and
ican dollars to 52.
The demand is quickened by *
proclamation of armistice led by the the f- be
fief ror of Japan which to
that peace is near at hand. Cbm*
t is supposed, . will ... , hav . -.oy 1 J heavt
tribute silver. Another reason f 0 r
in
the rise is the belief entertains
BO me quarters that England will J
I i n the bimetallic conference. a
buying for speculative account has bee
quite large late, but there i» ’
of
better inquiry for legitimate purp
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IRON MEN IN CONFEREE w * .
ConsiJ'’ r
Committees Appointed to
Wages, Discount Kates, Etc.
j ^Pennsyl^ m»® 4 '
.
!
from Ohio Eennj
Illinois and other states ^e i
to consider at Cleveland, discount O., Wednej^ ra
wages, Tilt
tr&de A 101111 of fi A ' »P
olnted ' i c 0 formulftte ? .®® , ria ihicb C*
P to J whicn th*
upon these subjects after ^
* conference adiourned pending W
port of the committee?